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Stairway Peak is a 3,006-metre mountain in the Canadian Rockies on the Continental Divide at the Alberta–British Columbia border, where it also marks the boundary between Banff and Yoho national parks. Visible from the Icefields Parkway, it was named in 1918 by Arthur O. Wheeler. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas and later pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. It lies in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and runoff that drains east to the Mistaya River and west to tributaries of the Blaeberry River.
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